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Lila’s Review – National Park Project – March 2019
Lila and her boyfriend Joe spend 2 weeks in Piedras Blancas National Park, and loved it. Here is her review. "We spent 2 weeks volunteering in Piedras Blancas National Park in March 2019, based at El Bonito ranger station. We were doing things like clearing trails...
Jamie’s Review – Solar Power Project 2018
Jamie from the USA participated in our Solar Power Project - A Hands On Workshop in 2018. My two week excursion with Green Life Volunteers exceeded my expectations. Janina's organization, enthusiasm, kindness, and humor throughout the trip united the diverse group of...
Joe’s Review – National Park Project – March 2019
Joe and his girlfriend Lila volunteered together in March 2019 on our National Park Project, in Piedras Blancas National Park. They spent two amazing weeks on the project, and send us this beautiful review: 'We had an amazing time at Piers Blancas National Park...
Solar Power Project – A Hands On Workshop – Next dates July 17-31, 2021
Next dates July 17-31, 2021. Are you interested in solar energy? Would you like to learn how to install Solar Panels and at the same time do something great for a small rural community in Costa Rica? Are you happy to meet other like-minded people and hang out with a...
Environmental Education Project Report
Morgan’s Blog – Morgan is a 27 year old volunteer from Canada, who is working for two months on our Environmental Education program in Puerto Jimenez, She's an environmental sciences teacher in Canada with classroom experience. This is her first blog...
Samantha’s Review & Blog – Biological Research Center
Samantha participated in our Biological Research Project for 1 month in July - August of 2016. This is her write up about her experiences: "It’s been about 2 and a half weeks since I got to Costa Rica, and I’m already dreading going home in just 11 days! I chose to...
Volunteer abroad: The benefits of flying the coop
Article written by Green Life Volunteers alumni volunteer Cassie Daigle. Original Article here in the Red and Black. The desire to travel resides in a lot of us as undergraduates, stemming from that nagging voice in our heads reminding us that following graduation, we...
Turtle Volunteer Blog – Cassie
It is quite the week this week for turtle nesting. The past three nights I've walked this week there has been a turtle every single time that has nested. Two nights ago, we were with one turtle for about thirty minutes before we realized there was another one not even...
The beauty of the Osa Peninsula
Hi everyone, We are working a lot on the website, movies, new projects, handbooks and a lot more, but we also need some relax time. And our relax time was next week. Some friends or Carlies were in Costa Rica and we did a lot of things in the Osa Peninsula. We went to...
Arboretum visit
Saturday 16 January we visited the Arboretum. Arboretum means a collection of trees, and now I have been there, I can confirm that it is a collection of trees. When we were there, we got a tour through the Arboretum by Juan. Juan told us a lot about the Arboretum and...
Business trip
Hi everyone! On the 28th of December all staff members of Green Life Volunteers went on a little business trip! We visited three new projects Green Life Volunteers will offer in the future. On the first day of business trip we visited a Biological Research...
CORCOVADO SCHOOL IS HIRING SCHOOL TEACHERS
Corcovado School is a small bilingual school in Puerto Jimenez, Osa Peninsula. We are hiring elementary school teachers and kindergarten teachers with former work experience in education. It is not necessary to speak Spanish – although it helps with your daily...
Christmas Bird Counting Hike
Last Saturday we went to the Christmas Bird Counting Hike in Puerto Jimenez. The Bird Counting group we participated was at Osa Interactive Gardens. The hike started at 05.30 o’clock, which we find very early. First we got an introduction and an explanation about what...
New movie for the Environmental Education Project!
Hi everyone, I would like to inform you about the projects that I have been working on lately. The project that I have been working on is EducaOsa. EducaOsa is an organization which provide environmental education to the rural schools around Puerto Jimenez. I went...
Help wanted for Dobby
Hi everyone, I will give you an update about the two rescued dogs Mila and Dobby which you maybe remember from the last blog. Mila and Dobby are both rescued by a project of Green Life Volunteers, the 'Dog Rescue Project'. Mila has been transferred to a new loving...
Bird Conservation Volunteer
Would you like to help a Bird Conservation NGO on the Osa Peninsula with their research and education all around the topic of exotic birds? Then you should volunteer on our Bird Conservation project!
Rescued dogs
Hi everyone, Last weekend, Janina had a big surprise for us. There were two dogs who where rescued, and we got the honor to take care of them. Saturday, on Thyrza’s birthday, we got Mila. She was rescued last Friday while we had a meeting for EducaOsa. We took her to...
Green Life Volunteers has a non-profit status in Costa Rica!
Perhaps you already saw it on Facebook but there is some news for Green Life Volunteers. After a long process, and a lot of waiting, Green Life Volunteers has officially a non-profit status in Costa Rica! According to the Costa Rican Registro Nacional an association...
Two Dutchies arrived in Puerto Jimenez
Hi everyone, let us introduce ourselves. We are the new interns of Green Life Volunteers. Our names are Thyrza (the blonde one) and Carlies (the curly hair). We are both Dutch students who are currently studying Bachelor Business with a degree on Vitality and Tourism...
Special Short-Term Volunteer Projects
We are NOW offering special short term volunteer projects or “excursion” options to our volunteers. Normally the minimum amount of time that the projects would like to receive volunteers is around one week. But NOW we can offer 2, 3, 4 or 5 day volunteering projects...